As of Tuesday morning, Nov. 15, in Riverside County about 94,000 ballots from Election Day Nov. 8 remain to be counted. About 10,000 of these ballots are provisional. Based on total ballots already counted and the uncounted ballots, turnout in Riverside County appears to have been about 41%. While the leaders from election night have…

Idyllwild’s free Summer Concert Series kicks off July 4 with local jazzgiants the 3Skinz opening for rock and roll vocal quartet The Diamonds.Next week the series continues with Sherry Williams and Friends, backedup by an orchestra lead by series founder Ken Dahleen. Dahleen told the Crier that this year is the series’ 25th or “Silver”anniversary,…

Local residents should expect to see smoke in the sky and perhaps some flames nearby. Local state and federal fire agencies will be conducting prescribed burns and pile burns this winter. On Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service was possibly to begin burning piles created from brush clearance of 12 acres around the Vista Grande Fire…

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is assisting in the search and rescue of a female hiker in the Idyllwild area, according to Deputy Robyn Flores of the media information bureau. The department received the report of the missing hiker at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11. The department’s helicopter has been searching on and off…